The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-11-17
THE DEMAND OF THE TINES
is FOR & CHANGE - THE BANK
ING So STEW.

The Impoverished Farmers Are Kept
Poor BY High Taxation and an nWise
Banking SYSTEM
Continuation of the address by DR.. Z.
J. Rembert, a native of Wake, before the
Joint Sumpter meeting Of the State Agri
cultural and Mechanical Society, and the
| State Grange of 2. and H.. at Columbia,
! ;. G.
| | had intended to write this paper with
/ out the introduction of three word that
are too often used = ard frequently with
/ cut Just cause. Those words are North.
j South and the War. Bat there are so
] many streams flowing into and so many
! flowing out of these great reservoirs, that
find it as impossible to get along without
/ their use, as il would be to make study
! ot the Bible with its Commentaries and
! Theological literature, by changing its
/ charters and verses into Historical meth
DDS Of composition.
The war has created an Epoch. 1t is
! great maelstrom, into which fate seemed
! . have drawn Us, and when We came out
! f it's yortex-we brought with us nothing
bat penury, sorrow and want
As | stated before that chemistry had
t41rht Us the great rounds of the elements
IF nature the wants of the plants and
"udsayoring to bring these principles into
practical and effective application. But
/ have we achieved it? Let an impoverished
country answer Let the mortgages to
! NOR, yed monop0lies and agents reply. Let
tie anxious face, anG nervous manner,
4 and care worn brow of the farmer tell
heir tale. Just before tie war Peruvian
I -tuanO was introduced just after the war
our great phosphate beds were unearthed,
~ Of
this country, a mine to help improve our
4 #orn oilJ soil.
We have found that the most important
ingredients for our plant food consists
mainly of Nitrogen, Pho8phoric Acid and
Potash. That Nitrogen, TIE parent of
ammonia, Is in humus that vegetable
matter gives Us this. This we can get
from he pea, from cotton seed and meal,
aud rom he woods and stables. That
I tie Ph0sphoric acid we can get from our
phosphate beds That he Potash is large
IL rsed in the German salt. IN the nltrates
/ su,l in all channels from which this great
Jlkal i taken.
BQt Whife ~ciance-hen-nant science
comes 10 help the farmer. Shylock stands,
is ~ treat sphinx with his Golfers full Of
.ihiv lucre, wrung largely from poverty
toll and speculation-eare retdily guarding
the key that opens the way 70 its grating
hir-cs Fraud-his ever ready help mate
ana companion, comes to his aid full OF
suggestion and plea. ENtortion is near at
hand 10 feed and fatten. Science, with
the impress of Genius stamped upon her
gentle face, contemplates its great trl-
umphs and rejolces III the great benefits to
humanity that have and will acrue from
their practical use. But avarice and
fraud spoiIs it abby closely watchiu g
the means by which the poor farmer can
be BETRAYED by high figures and spurious
articles Science feels conscious that she
has opened the womb OF nature, for the
benefit Of humanity But Shylock, Fraud
and Ayarice have impaled her; with quiet
face bat anxious air-she surveys the
situation. She finds the toiiers IN chains,
and Law is siding with the great coHlblna-
tious strong III their might and fearless
| in their eds-overwhelmed with anguish
and the marvellous conditions surrounding
her she calls for counsel with her fanl-
ly-for she is not alone. 1t Is not tic
counsel Of the Gods upon Mount q olympus,
but a concert OF action among the great
principles or forces of nature. FIRST she
summons her twin sister-the science OF
medicine She comes bearing III her jew
elled chaice, all the gifts attained OF ma
tlre, to ease the pains and panss Of the
W0rld-but unfortunately, rrallng pehlnd
her graceful garments, there moves with
stealthy tread, the charlatan-t throwing a
spray Of poison over her munlticent charl-
ties.
Then enters mechanism, or he science
Of applicance-whose genius preSldes oVei
the adapting and fitting of the forces OF
nature 10 matter-fortunately no attrl
butte Of antiquity, or of the dark ages en-
cumbers her progress.
Next in order. an appeal Is made to the
science Of Law-the science of Jurlspru
dence, Of Ethics. of Justice. He appear:
in stately robes. such as wouiii have hon
ored the forms of Jlpiter or Apollo. Bu
/, he is attended by an army of followers, a:
opponents of its great principles Game
lions, legal quacks, strategistS, tatooee
with bubbles, exceptions, intrigue, chi
: canery, indictments to strife, and barrlstr,
each bearing on the one side a package
Z Of briefs-on the other pouch for thel
: golden gains. Lastly, but more com
mandng figure than all this noble group
& comes the science of government, Will
& form erect and features firm as adaman
E but his advance Is lmpeded by ring
: and thorny combinations and intricat
i labyrintLS.
Agriculture. before the assembled coun
9 ell, puts in her plea for justice and righ
but 10 reach this Temple, her way
s studded with difficulties, and thorny en-
& cambrances. The weight is so onerou
i that each giant principle is impaled by it
. surroundings. But they survey the age
+ Of the past and visit the homes of thei
respective births-take courage, as Pau
+ did, and 90 on-and as they look dow
n the ages to come, they are assured tha
It their triumph will yet be complete.
Now | wish TO be distinctly understoo
before bringing into practical applicatio
!. the above figures. that it is not my inter
ton to assail any of the existing condition
OF institutions IN our State, nor any office
in public station trust, but rather, t
r. assault, scalpel in hand, the ulcers croI
it ping out of society-to note these want
u in our system and those improvement
is that would tend to the prosperity of OF
a people.
If After the war the situation of our pei
pie was abnormal and peculiar comm
out of it in sackcloth and ashes the
had to rebuild their wrecks as best the
could-with a National Government an
a Congress hostile to their interests-wit
a labor reversed and of {, different race
I irritated, prejudiced, estranged, demora
Il: lied, with no conception Of moral rules
Government, Of Law, of civiizatlon-wlt
no public opinion save to secrete and
e perpetrate the wrong and to suppress tt
al right with no instance in the whole Gu
rent of history of their ever having a